Corn-planter



(No Model.) v

J TURNER.

CORN PLANTER.

Patented Jan. 3.1882.

1. JZJ

*-- ATTORNEYS NITED STATES JAMES TURNER, OF CULPEPER, VIRGINIA.

PATENT OFFIce.

CORN-PLANTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Alb/251,975, dated January3, 1882.

Application filed A ugust 23, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES TURNER, a cilizen of the United States,resident of Culpeper,

in the county of Oulpeper and State of Virginia, have invented a new andvaluable Improvement in Corn-Planters; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a side elevation of myinvention. Fig. 2 is a rear view; and Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views ofthe slidrs.

This invention has relation to corn-planters; and it consists in thenovelconstruction and arrangement of the oscillatinglever and droppingslides, the tripping-lever, and the lever for throwing thetripping-lever out of gear with the operating-wheel, as will behereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, Adesiguates the frameofthe planter, carrying a hopper, B, on brackets G, raised above theframe.

D designates the plow for opening the furrow, and E E are the coverers.-

Fistthe supporting and operating wheel,

provided with pins G in the sides of the spokes, near the felly of thewheel.

The bottom of the hopper B is provided with a slide, H, havingfeedopenings a b, which have blocks 0 cl, operated by thnmb-screwsfg, toregulate the quantity of seed and fertilizer to be discharged, as may bedesired. The hopper 13 is provided with a partition, which divides itinto two compartments, one for corn and the other for fertilizer. Atube, I, leads from the rear of the hopper B to the spout J in the rearof the opening-plow D. Another slide, K, secured in ways L in the underside of the frame, is provided with an opening, M, and the slides H andK are connected at their forward ends by a pivoted lever, N, on a shaft,0, having its hearings in the side rails of the frame A. To this shaft 0is connected alever, 0, which. is operated by the pins G as the wheelrevolves to oscillate the slides H u r A lever, Q, pivoted to the top ofthe hopper is employed to elevate the lever 0, through the medium of achain,R, connecting the two to throw the slides out of operation whendesired.

By-using a chain, R, the levers O and N have an operative movementwithout aft'ecting the lever Q, and at the same time they can be readilylifted by said lever.

The agitator or feed in the hopper is provided with a pulley, R, aud thehub of the supporting-wheel is provided with a' pulley, S, a chain, T,connecting the two pulleys to operate the agitator. The pins in thespokes regulate the distance at which the corn is to be dropped. If itis desired to increase the distance, the pins from alternate spokes maybe removed. The corn and fertilizer drop from the openingin the upperslide to the lower slide, and thence through opening in the lower slidethrough the tube to the furrow, where they are covered by the coverers.

Having thus fully described my invention, whatI claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-

In acorn-planter, the hopper B, having the partition, in combinationwith the slide H, having the openings at 1), blocks 0 d, and set-screwsfg, connected to the slide K, having opening M, by the lever N on theshaft 0, the lever 0, chain R, lever Q, and the supporting and op-'erating wheel F, having the pins G, constructed, arranged, and operatingsubstantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES TURNER. Witnesses:

ELIAS BENJAMIN WRENN,

J oHN RITTENHoUsE FEAGANES.

